20 Dec
2006
20 Dec
'06
4:31 p.m.
Ethan Dicks wrote:
One thing I'm sort of looking for is my box of
Twinax baluns. When I
find the box, I can hook a real 5250 up to a BA123-sized AS/400 that
was given to me a couple of years ago that I haven't been able to fire
up for lack of a console cable. :-/
Since twinax is shielded twisted pair, is a BALUN necessary? For a
while, I used one twisted pair from about 50ft of ethernet CAT5 cable to
connect the S/34 in my garage to a terminal in the house. The connectors
on each end were two finish nails selected for the correct diameter.
Worked fine while I was play with it.
-chuck